Agustí, AnnaTàpies. Obra completa. Volum 8è. 1998-2004, Complete WorksBarcelona, Spain Ediciones Polígrafa 2006 8488786247 / 9788488786241 Presumed First Edition Hard Cover As New As New Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Tàpies, Antoni Antoni Tàpies i Puig [1923-2012]. A project of Fundació Antoni Tàpies. This is a multi-lingual edition in four languages: Catalan, Spanish, French and English. Presumed first printing of the first edition. Presumed cloth binding. Unbumped spine head and tail, with sharp corners. 12.25 x 11.5 inches. 31.1 x 29.5 cm. Text block firmly bound in. 512 pages. With B&W and color illustrations. An immaculate copy, and very tight. Lovely pictorial DJ, unclipped. Housed in the original, light-duty, plain cardboard slip case. All encased in the original shrink-wrap and with the publisher's label affixed to same, identifying the book as multi-lingual. An As New copy in an As New DJ in a Fine slip case. Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies, was a Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. Tàpies’ first artistic attempts began during a long convalescence following a serious illness, after which his increasing dedication to painting and drawing led him to abandon his university education. Tàpies achieved international recognition by the mid-1950s.
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350.00 USD

Asplund, KarlZorn's Engraved Work: A Descriptive Catalogue, Vols. I & IISan Francisco, CA Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1990 1556600348 / 9781556600340 First Edition Thus Hard Cover As New As New Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Zorn, Anders Anders Zorn [1860-1920]. Complete in two volumes. This is said to be a reprint of the 1920 Stockholm edition. Translated by Edward Adams-Ray. Unbumped spine heads and tails, with sharp corners. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Brown faux-leather boards. Vol I: Catalogue Nos. 1-121; Vol. II: Catalogue Nos. 122-288. With numerous full-page B&W plates. With an alphabetical index at the end of each volume. Lovely, copper-colored dust jackets with crisp black-stamped lettering and with a large illustration to the front of each dust jacket. These volumes are still in the original shrink-wrap. An As New set of two volumes with As New dust jackets. Gift quality.
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300.00 USD

Berend-Corinth, Charlotte; Röthel,, Hans KonradDie Gemälde von Lovis Corinth, WerkkatalogMunich, Germany Verlag F. Bruckmann 1958 First Edition Near Fine Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Dies ist nicht eine zweisprachige Ausgabe. Text in Deutsch, nicht in Englisch. This is not a bilingual edition. Text in German only, not in English. Lovis Corinth [1858-1925]. Presumed first printing. Printed and bound in Germany. Oatmeal heather linen [or linen-like] binding, with crisp red-stamped lettering to the front board and gilt-stamped lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, with sharp corners, save for minor bump to upper front corner. 11.75 x 9 inches. Text block firmly bound in. 863 numbered pages, including text pages [1]-221 and plate pages 225-863. Color frontispiece plus as additional 23 full-page color plates. Also with 983 B&W plates. All plates on heavy, semi-glossy coated stock. An immaculate copy, and very tight. Either unread or very gently read. Lovely pictorial DJ, unclipped. Just a hint of rubbing to the DJ. DJ in a clear Mylar DJ protector. Housed in the original, medium-duty, plain cardboard slip case. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ in a Very Good Plus slip case. With thanks to Wikipedia for the following: Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth's subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes. During the Third Reich, Corinth's work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate art. In 1937, Nazi authorities removed 295 of his works from public collections, and transported seven of them to Munich where they were displayed in March 1937 in the Degenerate Art Exhibition. Eigentlich Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth war ein deutscher Maler. Er zählt neben Max Liebermann, Ernst Oppler und Max Slevogt zu den wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Vertretern des deutschen Impressionismus. Seine späten Werke werden häufig als eine Synthese aus impressionistischem und expressionistischem Schaffen angesehen.
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150.00 USD

Guérin, MarcelJ.-L. Forain, lithographe: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographié de L'artisteSan Francisco, California, U.S.A. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1980 0915346397 / 9780915346394 First Edition Thus Buckram Near Fine Very Good Minus Facsimile 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Ce n'est pas une édition bilingue. Texte en français uniquement, pas en anglais. This is not a bilingual edition. Text in French only, not in English. A catalogue of 89 of the artist's lithographs. This is a facsimile edition of the 1910 Floury edition. Printed and bound in the USA. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Handsome medium gray buckram binding, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and the corners are sharp. 14 numbered pages of text, followed by 89 B&W full-page plates, with note on each plate on the opposite page. All illustrations on crisp, heavy matte stock. The book appears immaculate, inside and out. The text block is solidly attached to the binding. Very gently read. The pictorial DJ is unclipped and gently rubbed. DJ with three very small tears, each deftly repaired from the underside with archival tissue-tape. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good Minus DJ.
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57.50 USD

le Normand-Romain, AntoinetteThe Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée RodinParis, France Musée Rodin 2007 2901428924 / 9782901428923 First Edition Cloth Near Fine Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall An immensely attractive catalogue raisonné of the artist's bronzes in the Musée Rodin. Printed and bound in France. Translated from the French. Complete in two volumes. 15 x 9.25 inches. Bronze-brown cloth binding, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the front boards and to the spines. Unbumped spine heads and tails, and the corners are sharp. Vol. I with 383 numbered pages, Vol. II with 392-822 numbered pages. With hundreds of B&W illustrations, and with several full color plates, some full page, on crisp, heavy coated stock. The two volumes appear immaculate, inside and out. The text blocks are solidly attached to the bindings. Either unread or very gently read. No remainder marks. The handsome pictorial DJs are unclipped and with virtually no rubbing. The DJs protected by clear Mylar over-wrappers. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ.
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250.00 USD

MacDonald, Margaret F.James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue RaisonnéNew Haven, CT Yale University Press 1995 0300059876 / 9780300059878 First American Edition Cloth Near Fine Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Whistler, James McNeill Published on behalf of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Presumed first printing. Set in type in Hong Kong. Printed and presumed bound in Singapore. Royal blue cloth binding, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and trivial bump at spine tail, with sharp corners. 12 x 10 inches. Text block firmly bound in. xli and 642 numbered pages. Heavy, glossy coated stock with approximately 1,600 illustrations, including many color plates. An immaculate copy, and very tight. Either unread or very gently read. Lovely pictorial DJ, unclipped. Just a hint of rubbing to the DJ. DJ in a clear Mylar DJ protector. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. A very heavy book. "The catalogue raisonné begins with an introductory essay on Whistler's life and includes over 1,700 entries.... Every extant work by Whistler, and many now missing, have been catalogued and reproduced...."
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111.00 USD

Pope, John Alexander; Cahill, James; Gettens, RutherfordThe Freer Chinese Bronzes, Volume I, Catalogue, Volume II, Technical StudiesWashington, D.C., U.S.A. Freer Gallery of Art 1967 First Edition Buckram Fine Very Good Plus Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Smithsonian Publication 4706. Oriental Studies No. 7 publication. Completed in two volumes. Presumed first editions, first printings, 1967 and 1969. Printed and bound in Meriden, CT. As to both volumes, heather green buckram binding, with crisp gilt-stamped institutional logo to the front board and crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine heads and tails, with sharp corners. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Text blocks firmly bound in. Vol. I with xxi and 638 numbered pages of text, and interspersed with 116 plates and 54 figures, all in monochrome and all with explanatory notes for each plate. Vol. II with xviii and 257 numbered pages of text, and interspersed with 315 figures, all in monochrome. Both volumes are immensely clean inside and out, and very tight, with little hint of shelf life. Either unread or very gently read. No remainder marks. Attractive pictorial DJs, unclipped and moderately rubbed and with a hint of edge wear. A Fine two-volume copy in Very Good Plus DJs. An exhaustive and well-regarded work on Chinese bronzes in the Freer Collection.
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300.00 USD

Poulsen, VagnCatalogue des Terres Cuites Grecques et RomainesCopenhagen, Denmark 1949 First Edition Paperback Very Good Plus 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ce n'est pas une édition bilingue. Texte en français uniquement, pas en anglais. No. 2, Publications de la Glyptothèque Ny Carlsberg. Avec 60 pp. et 70 monochrome pleine page photogravures. This is not a bilingual edition. Text in French only, not in English. Not ex library. 9 x 6 inches. A paperback with pale beige wrappers with yapped edges. The plain wrappers are printed in black lettering, and with a monochrome plate to the front wrapper. Unbumped spine head and gently bumped tail, with gently bumped corners impressing the first several pages, quite minor. Wrappers very lightly soiled. With 60 numbered pages detailing an inventory of 117 examples, and with LXX full-page monochrome plates. All plates on semi-glossy coated stock. The book with no age-toning apparent. Several unopened pages, hence unread in full. An exceptionally clean copy, inside and out. A Very Good Plus copy. A catalogue of the collection of terracotta sculpture formed by Carl Jacobsen beginning in the late 19th century and eventually acquired by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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30.00 USD

Riediger, CarstenPaul Wunderlich, Band III, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, 1948 bis 1982: Catalogue raisonne (Paul Wunderlich, das malerische, graphische und plastische Werk) (German Edition)Offenbach am Main, Germany Edition V. Huber 1983 3921785359 / 9783921785355 First German Edition Cloth Fine Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Wunderlich, Paul Signed By DesignerPaul Wunderlich [1927-2010]. Dies ist nicht eine zweisprachige Ausgabe. Text nur in deutscher Sprache, nicht in Englisch. This is not a bilingual edition. Text in German only, not in English, except that the introduction includes small sections in English and in French. Presumed first printing. Printed and bound in Switzerland. Vol. III of a total of IV volumes by the publisher on the artist's work. Yellow linen-lilke cloth binding, with crisp black-stamped lettering to the front board and spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, with sharp corners. 10.75 x 9.5 inches. Text block firmly bound in. 454 numbered pages. Heavy, semi-glossy coated stock with approximately 690 illustrations, including numerous full-page and half-page color plates. An immaculate copy, and very tight. Either unread or very gently read. Lovely pictorial DJ, unclipped. Just a hint of rubbing to the DJ. DJ in a clear Mylar DJ protector. Housed in the original, light-duty, plain cardboard slip case. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ in a Near Fine slip case. This is a very heavy book. Provenance: Grafik Verlag, Galerie und Edition, Frankfurt, Germany. Slipped in is a prospectus from the gallery about the artist's work and apparently signed by the gallery founder, Bernd Slutzky.
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100.00 USD

Riopelle, YseultJean Paul Riopelle, Catalogue raisonné. 1939-1953, Tome 1; 1954-1959, Tome 2; 1960-1965, Tome 3Montréal, Québec, Canada Hibou Editeurs 1999 2922623009 / 9782922623000 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Riopelle, Jean Paul Un catalogue raissoné compléter en trois volumes. Il s'agit d'une édition bilingue, avec le texte principal dans le texte français et en anglais et en français seulement accessoire. Les livres avec 461, et 495 et 496 pages numérotées et avec des centaines de plaques de couleurs magnifiques, le tout sur papier couché lourd. Chaque volume est impeccable, et très serré, avec pratiquement aucune trace de la durée de vie. Presque certainement pas lu. A catalogue raissoné complete in three volumes. Hardbacks, NOT paperbacks. The ISBNs are: 2922623017; 294033224x; and 978-2922623024. Note that Tome 2 also contains an addendum to Tome 1 for the years 1939-1953. Published serially in and 1999, 2004 and 2009. This is a bilingual edition, with primary text in French and English and ancillary text in French only. Tome 2 also with an extended essay in Italian. Vol. 1 printed and presumed bound in Italy, 1999; Vol. 2 in France, April, 2004; Vol 3 in Canada, September 2009. Full-pictorial glossy paper hardboards, with crisp stamped titling to the front boards and spines. 12.25 x 10.25 inches. Unbumped spine heads and tails, with sharp corners. With 461, and 495 and 496 numbered pages and with hundreds of stunning color plates, all on heavy coated stock. The first two volumes each with an interactive CD-Rom in a clear plastic envelope affixed to the front pastedown by the publisher. Each volume is immaculate, and very tight, with virtually no hint of shelf life. Almost certainly unread. No remainder marks. Only Vol. 2 has a dust jacket. It is full-pictorial, unclipped and with no trace of wear. It is unclear whether Vols. 1 and 3 were issued with DJs. Each of the three volumes is housed in a medium-duty slipcase covered with full-pictorial glossy paper. Slight wear to the bottoms of the slipcases, and also some wear along the top edges of the Vol. 1 slipcase. A Fine set, Vol. 2 in a Fine DJ, and all three volumes in Near Fine slipcases.
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750.00 USD

Salomons, VeraCharles EisenLondon, England John & Edward Bumpus 1914 First British Edition Decorative Boards Very Good Minus Limited Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Eisen, Charles From the series, XVIIIth Century French Book-Illustrators. Principal text in English, with secondary text in French, including a preface in French by Emile Bertaux. Title page gives a publication date of 1914 but in fact not issued until 1921, due to the War, according to laid-in notices. This is copy no. 74 of a special edition of 100 copies only, printed on hand-made paper. Printed by the Chiswick Press, Great Britain. Dark salmon pink buckram linen binding giving the effect of watered silk, with gilt-stamped design to the front board and with gilt-stamped lettering to the spine. 9 x 6 inches. Gently bumped spine head, tail and rear corners. T.E.G. The fore and bottom edges deckled to a handsome effect. The text block firmly bound in. A few pages still unopened, as issued. With 195 numbered pages, including a catalogue of the major books illustrated by Eisen, and with 39 photogravure plates from negatives by the author. The plates include small head- and tail-pieces, two full-page frontispiece illustrations and also 30 full-page illustrations at the rear of the volume. No remainder marks. Offsetting to the front and rear FEPs from the opposite pastedowns. Offsetting to the verso-recto opposite frontispiece illustrations due to the absence of a tissue guard. One small nick to the spine. Else a very clean and presentable copy, inside and out. A Very Good Minus copy.
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50.00 USD

Tolman, Norman; Karhu, CliftonKarhu Print Collection, Kaahu HangashuKyoto, Japan Unsodo Co., Ltd. 1975 First Edition Cloth Fine Fine Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall Karhu, Clifton Signed by IllustratorFirst edition and presumed only edition. Limitation unstated but probably 1000 or fewer copies. This is a bilingual edition in Japanese and in English. Printed and presumed bound in Kyoto, Japan. Gorgeous linen [or linen-like] cloth hardboard binding, with crisp red/orange-stamped lettering to the front board and to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, with sharp corners. Almost no rubbing to the cloth. 17.25 x 14.5 inches (44 x 37 cm). Text block firmly bound in. With 50 numbered pages in Japanese and English, including the essay, Clifton Karhu, Japanese Print Artist, by Norman H. Tolman. Included is an original woodblock print by Karhu, signed by him, and tipped in. With 134 plates in full, bold color and with 77 B&W illustrations. Each page of color plates with a pristine tissue guard. The book in a protective, heavy-duty chemise. The chemise in oxblood-colored cloth and blindstamped Japanese characters. The chemise with two bone (or bone-like) clasps. Trivial spotting to the inner sides of the spines of the chemise. The spotting has not transferred. Complete with the original factory plain cardboard shipping box, the box in two parts, one sliding inside the other. The box with a large paper wrap-around label. The label with moderate rubbing. A Fine copy in a Near Fine chemise. About gift quality. Scarce in any condition. The book is believed to showcase all the artist's known woodblock prints through 1975. Many more were to follow. Karhu (1927-2007) was born in Minnesota of non-Japanese heritage. (The artist's name is often rendered in Japanese as Kahu or Good Wind.) He graduated in 1952 from the Minneapolis School of Art. He lived in Japan much of his adult life. His woodblock prints often depict scenes of typically Japanese buildings with strong pattern and color. Although his orientation is traditional, he has mastered the arts of carving and printing rather than relying completely on artisans as ukiyo-e artists did.
Price:
750.00 USD

Wunderlich, PaulPaul Wunderlich: Lithographien 1959-1973 (German Edition)Stuttgart, Germany Belser Verlag 1974 3763015728 / 9783763015726 First German Edition Cloth Fine Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Wunderlich, Paul Paul Wunderlich [1927-2010]. Dies ist nicht eine zweisprachige Ausgabe. Text nur in deutscher Sprache, nicht in Englisch. This is not a bilingual edition. Text in German only, not in English. This is copy. no. 539 of a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies and contains three original lithographs bound in. Presumed first printing. Printed and bound in Switzerland. Red silk-lilke cloth binding, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the front board and spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, with sharp corners. 14 x 11.5 inches. Text block firmly bound in. 157 numbered pages. Heavy, matte coated stock. In addition to the three original lithographs there are 50 featured plates, all full-page and many full-color. An immaculate copy, and very tight. Either unread or very gently read. Lovely pictorial DJ, unclipped. Just a hint of rubbing to the DJ. Housed in the original, light-duty, plain cardboard slip case. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ in a Very Good Plus slip case. Paul Wunderlich was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He designed Surrealist paintings and erotic sculptures. He often created paintings which referenced mythological legends.
Price:
195.00 USD